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Hello dear everyone! 
As the tile indicates - consider this a poll of sorts! I am wondering what to work on next, and thought I'd ask you, since you're here and all! This question and info is just for you Patrons ;) 



1. I got it into my head to create custom moods... So far those are the ones I thought of making: Tired (see image), Distracted (see image - ignore the whims displayed, they're not changed yet from the game mood I used as template), "Productive", "Lazy" (havin' a lazy day, happens to everyone), "Enthused / Excited", "Moved / Emotional", and the cute "Affectionate" (called 'cuddly' in the picture as I couldn't remember then the word I wanted!)
Any specific mood you would like in the game? Feedback on my current ideas? They would be 'small' moods, more minor or background ones than the game's main moods - seen less often and less important - there for storytelling mostly.  I would tie them in at first only to things in my own mods, and then once I've ensured that it works well, I may tie them in to existing game stuff. Also, note that custom mood colors aren't possible (as far as the modding community has concluded for now) since that's controlled in UI files - so I need to reuse colors (and poses, actually) from other moods.
EDIT: This will begin as the addition of a "Affectionate'' (temporarily named' cuddly in the image above) mood in the Road to Romance Mod. 'Flirty' seems to pretty much mean, well... horny. "Affectionate" - or whatever it will be called - could be an equivalent that will encourage autonomy towards hugs, compliments and sweet words but not towards WooHoo and such stuff - this mood would be trigger by cute interactions such as "Appreciate for All the Little Things", "Enthuse about Relationship", "Compliment Personality", "Récite Love Poetry" and "snuggle" for example. This would be (Will be, honestly) in the next update of Road to Romance.

2. Another thing I've been thinking about, which would be a big work, is an Astrology personality system. I'm not talking just giving Sun Signs as a personality trait option when creating a Sim. I'm talking a system with sun, moon and rising signs, the 12 signs for each and you combine them as you choose. The Sun sign would push the Sim's autonomy in specific directions and affect how slowly or quickly they gain / lose certain needs; the Moon sign would affect their emotions, how strong and lasting they are per category (for example Aries moon is very explosive in anger, so, shorter angry moodlets but stronger ones). The Rising sign would determine skill gain bonuses / maluses as well as interests - something I would add too - and success rates for various types of interactions. Any thoughts? It doesn't matter if people know or believe in astrology to use this, this is just like, some sort of personality system as I said.

3. What would you like me create? :)
Except for the two things mentioned about, my iinspiration is a little dry right now! So, any idea you have, Ifeel free to share!

4. What's next for current mods:
- I am still thinking of making a "Teen Romance" module for Road to Romance.
- Road to Romance will get new stuff, more interactions etc. 
- Psychic Sims will get an update soonish, with the ability to resuscitate ghosts (I tested it today and it works, yay!) and if I can make it, to also send them to the afterlife.  Along with a few more things I want to add, but haven't started working on yet. In time, I want to create a Psychic Power bar, like Vampire Energy kind of, but that's not for right now as it is big work!

Have a good day,
Best,
Lumpinou

Comments

Anonymous

I really like both 1 and 2's ideas a lot! Hmm I'll start thinking on some ideas and see what I can come up with since you said you'd like some ideas :) The Astrology personality system mod with sun, moon, and rising signs sounds really coo and I'd love to see a mod like that. Hope you have a good day too! :D Keep up the awesome work but don't push yourself too hard :)

Kimikosoma

I'm curious about the new moods and astrology system ! Great to that your other mods will keep on getting new features as well ! Regarding Sims personalities, would you consider modding preferences and dislikes for our Sims ? Not necessarily in the romance field but for example a mod to set the favourite food, type of music, type or activities...with specific whims and mood lets, what do you think?^^

lumpinou

Thanks for the feedback and ideas! For sure I'm not abandoning the already existing mods... Especially Psychic Sims because it absolutely needs its update to v1, and sooner than later, for me to be able to feel like I can take a break from it ;). I've kept thinking about preferences too... There's mods out there that tackle that, mostly "Love and Hate" by Triplis (which I haven't used yet but looks very in depth: https://triplis.github.io/mods/love-and-hate.html If I do Preferences, I have to think of a way to do it and have it impact Sims that has never been done before... but the thought keeps coming back yes. Maybe once I've tried Triplis's mod I'll think "Ok we don't need another preference mod, this is the one"... We shall see! The Astrology Personality System idea was kind of my way to do that to a small extent but covertly and tying in personality too... You make me think again about preferences though, and I think I'll try Triplis's mod now and see what it inspires or discourages. Thanks again for your time and involvement :)

Evangelina Silvercloud

Hi Kimikkosoma and Lumpinou ;) Triplis did a really good job with her "Love and Hate" mod. BUT she decided to withdrawn modding a long time ago. I was a Patreon of her because I loved her "Become a Socerer mod" and the "Love and Hate mod". I'm not sure if you can use her last version of the mods, Lumpinou - be careful. I would love to see a mod like the above mentioned and your idea with the astrology system and the new moods sounds fantastic. Generally I love all mods that give the game more depth because in my opinion Sims 4 is a "nice" game but not more. That's also one reason I love your new romance mod. Thank you sooo much for all your hard work and pls. don't stress yourself. I wish you a happy weekend, stay safe and well. Lovely regards from Austria

Anonymous

I'm not sure how it would work but I'd really like an expansion to pregnancy buff. I'm fed up of it always being a happy thing unless the sims has the 'hates children' trait when in reality it isn't always a happy time. Perhaps different moodlets depending on the sim's traits or whether or not they're in a relationship, if they got pregnant from cheating etc. Thank you for all your hard work, all your mods are excellent. <3

lumpinou

That is an awesome idea! I have no clue as of now what to base reactions off of, but I think it's doable even without overrides (which I avoid like the plague), so I'm pretty interested. I'll have to play the game a little and see what happens when Sims get pregnant (my Sims are eternally the same and never have kids or divorce or do anything life changing 😂). And that should give me ideas on how to go about this. I am adding this to my list; I don't want to get your hopes up as I don't know how little or non little what I'll do on it will be. I'll do something, but I don't know what yet :) Thanks for the idea and the nice words! ❤️

Kimikosoma

Yeah, I agree, the "Love and Hate" mod is a great one ! I'm pretty sure the Thinking one still works sooo I hope this one does too, but I haven't retried it in my game yet. So yeah, I think that Lumpinou, if you're ever interested in creating sth similar (that would maybe enable us to set several loves and hates at the same time ?), it could be greaaat to bring more personality to our Sims ! ^^